A Mommy Junco raising a California Towhee chick

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This Junco ( the smaller bird) has been teaching the Bushtit chick how to pick food and eat by self. Such affection among different spices of animal is rare. She trained the chick for 2 weeks before it became independent. All these happened near my bird feeder

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Size: 5568px × 3712px
Location: Cupertino, CA
Photo credit: © Amazing Action Photography / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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